Greatest Nine

Greatest Nine is a series of baseball-themed sports video games developed by Sega CS and published by Sega. It began with the 1995 game Kanzen Chūkei Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine for the Sega Saturn. Its most recent entry is Baseball Advance (2002).

Greatest Nine
Genre(s)	Sports
Developer(s)	Sega CS1 Lab
Publisher(s)	Sega
Platform(s)	Sega Saturn, Game Boy Advance
First release	Kanzen Chūkei Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine JP: May 26, 1995
Latest release	Baseball Advance 2002

Overview

Release timeline

1995	Kanzen Chūkei Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine
1996	Greatest Nine '96
1997	Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine 97
1998	Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine 98
1999
2000
2001
2002	Baseball Advance

Greatest Nine began on the Sega Saturn in 1995. New releases in the series stopped for a while after 1998. However, it was revived in 2002 on the Game Boy Advance (GBA). This Game Boy Advance version has developed by Smilebit (absorbed by Sega in 2004), behind the Motto Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! franchise.

Games

Kanzen Chūkei Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine (1995)

Kanzen Chūkei Pro Yakyū Greatest Nine was developed to feature full Major League Baseball licensing for the American market. Next Generation reviewed the Saturn version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "In the end, minus a few malfunctioning control features that Sega US promises to fix, Greatest Nine is an excellent sports title for the Saturn and an extremely encouraging sign of what's to come."

Baseball Advance (2002)

Main article: Baseball Advance

A version of Greatest Nine was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, under the name Baseball Advance.